| AS | Active surveillance |
| AUA | American Urological Association |
| AUC | Area under the curve |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| CaPSURE | Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavour |
| CAPRA | Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment |
| CCP | Cell Cycle Progression score |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CPG | Cambridge Prognostic Group |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| EAU | European Association of Urology |
| EPI | ExoDx Prostate Intelliscore |
| EV | Extracellular vesicle |
| FOI | Freedom of information |
| GAP3 | Global Action Plan 3 (Movember Foundation consortium) |
| GG | Gleason Grade group |
| GPS | Genomic Prostate Score |
| GS | Gleason Score |
| hK2 | Human kallikrein-related peptidase 2 |
| HR | Hazard ratio |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| ISUP | International Society of Urological Pathology |
| MIC1 | Macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 |
| mpMRI | Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging |
| MSMB | Microseminoprotein beta |
| NCCN | National Comprehensive Cancer Network |
| NICE | National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |
| NPCA | National Prostate Cancer Audit |
| NPV | Negative predictive value |
| OR | Odds ratio |
| PASS | Prostate Active Surveillance Study |
| PCA3 | Prostate Cancer Antigen 3 |
| PCUK | Prostate Cancer UK |
| PHI | Prostate Health Index |
| PI-RADS | Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System |
| PRIAS | Prostate Cancer Research International Active Surveillance study |
| PSA | Prostate-specific antigen |
| PUR | Prostate Urine Risk |
| RCT | Randomised controlled trial |
| RNA | Ribonucleic acid |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SEER | Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results |
| STHLM3 | Stockholm3 |
| STRATCANS | Stratified Cancer Surveillance |
| T-stage | Tumour stage |